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> 
>  I don't want to restrict anyone's right to communicate with others, to
...oh dangit, I just shot myself in the *other* foot. 

Advocacy is a wonderfull thing, trolling is...trolling ;)

It is of course possible the original poster was sincere, but if he was i
have trouble believing he's as unix literate as claimed, one of the first
things you learn about unix is it's the nonstandard standard...

So much for devils advocacy, or advocacy in any form! :-)
> 
>  This isn't flame-bait in any way. I would value the opinion of some of
 the great thinkers on this list. Jeff Lasman, Rodolfo, Thom, Carrie,
Zeffie, flash[gsh], et al. 

egads, my head will never fit through the door again ;0

> 
>  So...whaddya think? Why am I hobbling around with bullet holes in both
feet? <laugh>

I think you touched on everything that is right and everything that
is wrong with a public mailing list -/ 

Consider for a moment the cobalt-security list...how many people that
posted here should have been posting there? but it's a more formal list,
and thus discouraged people i think from asking what they may have felt
were 'dumb' questions, they were more willing to ask them here...there's a
point in that...

gsh